Frogley Summer Tour - Day 3

Day 3: Davenport, IA to Des Moines, IA

This morning we were able to sleep in until about 8:30. It was wonderful. The Kalls were away at morning mass when we got up, so we fed the kids breakfast and got them started on showers before they got home. We folded all the laundry, repacked bags with clean clothes, got all the kids bathed and dressed in their church clothes, and buckled everyone in for a drive down memory lane by 10:30am.

We deviated from our original plan a bit and had a bit of adventure navigating downtown Davenport finding places Dave remembered from his childhood, but we managed to find all but one (we didn’t look that hard for it), and we finished within the hour we had available, and arrived back at the Kall’s house for lunch by 11:40.

Annie Wittenmyer Complex - Theater Classes and Library

Dave's piano teacher's house

Davenport Library

YMCA (Swimming and Gymnastics)

Fejavary Park (small zoo and sledding)

Putnam Museum

Adams Elementary

A park Dave played in as a kid

Another former house

Grandpa (and great-grandpa) Frogley's old office

Great-grandpa and great-grandma Frogley's house (or at least the property where the house was)

Lunch was deli sandwiches again (yum) and then we were off to church. We went to the 1:00pm ward that met in the Davenport Stake Center, as that’s the building Dave went to most and remembers best. It turned out to be a great choice of wards. Apparently the ward boundaries in the Quad Cities have changed dramatically since Dave was a kid, but we managed to randomly pick a ward where there were a few people he knew, and who remembered him.

We also had a small miracle in that Matthew actually went to nursery happily… at least for the first half. I got to attend Gospel Doctrine for the first time in about 6 months, and it was a wonderful lesson.

After church we went back to the Kalls’ where they grilled dinner for us (yum again), and then we chatted more, Skyped with Aubrey (their daughter who is in Ireland for an internship), and played some games. We then packed up the car and drove 2 hours back west to Altoona… just outside of Des Moines. It’s now 10:30pm. We’re once again letting the kids watch a show on a computer in the hotel room before we shut off the lights for bed. Tomorrow won’t be a super early morning, but I am expecting a bit more cooperation (and a lot of wild craziness) as we are planning to spend the day at AdventureLand!